Quest Software, established in 1987, acquired TOAD in October 1998. Finally, McDaniel realized that he could no longer dedicate substantial amounts of time to the growing quantity of software enhancement requests. McDaniel made the tool available to others first as shareware and later as freeware, distributing it freely over the Internet.Īs the user base grew, so did the effort of maintenance and development. He called it Tool for Oracle Application Developers: 'TOAD' for short. Jim McDaniel (aka 'TOADman'), a practicing Oracle DBA, originally designed Toad for his own use in the mid-1990s.

Toad solutions enable data professionals to automate processes, minimize risks, and cut project delivery timelines.

There are Toad products for developers and DBAs, which run on Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 (LUW & z/OS), SAP and MySQL, as well as, a Toad product for data preparation, which supports most data platforms. Toad is a database management toolset from Quest Software that database developers, database administrators, and data analysts use to manage both relational and non-relational databases using SQL.

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